Re: lynx-dev LYNX: more pleas for the L-page addrs

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, David Combs wrote:

> I have no idea what's going on WITHIN lynx, and WHY
> lynx shows the L-page differently today from yesterday.
> 
> --------- HERE'S MINE TODAY:
>  
>                                                List Page (Lynx Version 
> 2.8.2dev.12)
> 
>    References in http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/7417/roy/index.htm
>                                
>      * [1]http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/index.htm
>      * [2]Arundhati Roy
>      * [3]Arundhati Roy
>      * [4]http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/7417/roy/tgost2.htm
>      * [5]http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/7417/roy/tgost3.htm

> --------- HERE'S MINE YESTERDAY (after a LONG lynx session):     
>  (I had screen-size set to 79 then for a while; I flipped them back and
>    forth today, and it makes no difference.  "*" also makes no
>    real difference, aside from showing .jpg and .gif links;  I have
>    no idea what to do to re-create this "bad" L-page -- maybe WHAT
>    L-page shows depends on some GLOBAL VARIABLES that somehow got
>    set differently during that long lynx run?):
> 
> 
>                      List Page (Lynx Version 2.8.2dev.12)
>                                    
>    References in
>    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/7417/roy/index.htm
>      
>      * [1]http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/index.htm
>      * [2]Arundhati Roy
>      * [3]Arundhati Roy
>      * [4]Arundhati Roy
>      * [5]Arundhati Roy
> 
> --------- HERE'S ISMAEL'S:
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/tgost1.htm
>    2. http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/tgost1.htm
>    3. http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/tgost2.htm
>    4. http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/tgost3.htm
>    5. http://www.wish.u-net.com/roy/tgost4.htm
> 
> Maybe only the source will show what is going on.

Or maybe some thinking.  How can Lynx show the title if it
doesn't know it?  It can't.  So it shows the URL if it doesn't 
know the title.  How does Lynx get to know the title?  Normally
by parsing the HTML when the document is loaded.  The rest is
left as an exercise.

   Klaus